Pope Francis embodies spirit of Christianity

2:42 PM,
Mar. 12, 2014

Written by

C.E. Swain
Carthage

Many of us are thrilled that Pope Francis is exhibiting the spirit of Jesus; that is, the spirit of Jesus before the Council of Nicea under the leadership of Constantine (325 AD, longer than we have been a nation).

For the first three centuries of Christianity (it was not called Christianity until after Nicea), Jesus was seen as a prophet, the spirit of the Golden Rule, the spirit of non-violent resistance to evil, the ...